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- 1. Multiple Choice
The cerebellum is most directly involved in
forming emotional memories
forming explicit and spatial memories
judgment, higher-order cognition, and personality
sensory processing and relaying
motor learning
- 2. Multiple Choice
When studying for a vocabulary test, Catherine read one of her vocabulary words and its definition aloud several times. About twenty seconds later, she still remembered the word’s meaning, but then she moved on to the next word in the list without engaging in any further strategies to enhance her memory. The next day, she tested herself on the same vocabulary word at the same time, in the same mood, and in the same location as when she had first studied the word, but she could not remember its definition. It is most likely that Catherine could not remember the word because she failed to engage which of the following memory functions?
Sensory memory, because Catherine did not pair the word with one of her senses to remember it the next day.
Long-term memory, because Catherine failed to encode the word; therefore, the word did not become a part of her long-term memory.
Retrieval, because though Catherine probably stored the memory, it was difficult for her to retrieve it.
State-dependent memory, because Catherine was too anxious to perform well.
Context-dependent memory, because Catherine did not study the word in a variety of locations.
- 3. Multiple Choice
After Doug witnessed two cars involved in a car accident, a police officer asked Doug how fast the cars were going when the accident happened. According to research by Elizabeth Loftus, which of the following questions could the officer ask that would make Doug most susceptible to the misinformation effect?
How fast were the cars going when the accident occurred?
How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?
What can you tell me about what you saw?
What did the cars look like?
Were there other people around who witnessed the accident?
- 4. Multiple Choice
When Gustavo goes through lists of inventory items and thinks about whether each one is a fruit or not, he remembers more of the items on those lists later than when he goes through lists of inventory items and does not think about what each item is. Which of the following concepts best explains Gustavo’s performance?
Sensory memory, because he is activating information about his sensory experiences of fruit.
The spacing effect, because he is going through the list multiple times.
Elaborative encoding, because engaging in deeper processing improves memory.
Single-trial learning, because he goes through the lists only one time.
Flashbulb memories, because Gustavo has vivid memories of fruit and that helps him remember.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Mary is introduced to three new people at a party. Later, however, she cannot remember the names of any of her new acquaintances, even though she remembers what she ate, her old friends who were there, and the address of the host. What may account for Mary’s inability to remember these individuals’ names?
She processed them into long-term memory, and they are no longer accessible from short-term memory.
There were many activities at the party. She probably exceeded the capacity of her long-term memory.
She overlearned the names through excessive rehearsal.
She never encoded the names into long-term memory.
She experienced a failure of her echoic memory.
- 6. Multiple Choice
In memory experiments on free recall, the recency effect refers specifically to the
enhanced recall of items at the beginning of a list of words
enhanced recall of items at the end of a list of words
enhanced recall of items in the middle of a list of words
diminished recall of items at the end of a list of words
diminished recall of items at the beginning of a list of words
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which area of the brain is not well developed until after three years of age, offering a possible explanation for infantile amnesia?
Hypothalamus
Cerebellum
Pons
Thalamus
Hippocampus
- 8. Multiple Choice
According to the information-processing view of memory, the first stage in-memory processing involves
retrieval
storage
rehearsal
encoding
transfer
- 9. Multiple Choice
On a fishing trip, Ed realizes that he has mistakenly packed the sewing box instead of the tackle box. He wants to fish but returns home because he does not have any line or hooks. Ed's failure to realize that sewing thread can be used as fishing line and that a bent needle can be used as a hook is an example of
poor problem representation
cognitive accommodation
backward masking
functional fixedness
proactive interference
- 10. Multiple Choice
A person assembling a tool one week after reading the instructions can remember the first and last steps of the procedure but not the middle ones. This best illustrates which of the following?
Encoding failure
Social facilitation
Retrograde amnesia
Repression
The serial position effect
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best illustrates Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve?
Laurence studied for his first Spanish test by sitting down and cramming for two hours, and he studied for his second Spanish test by spacing out his studying for 30 minutes over the course of a week. He did better on the second test than the first.
Erik studied Italian in college. After he graduated, he went backpacking in Europe, where he realized he had forgotten a lot of Italian. Years later, he went on another trip to Italy and was surprised to discover that he remembered about the same amount of Italian as during his first trip.
When Ruth first moves to a new country, she keeps trying to use customs from her old country. Over time, she adjusts to her new country’s ways.
Marsha remembers only information that agrees with her current understanding and ignores everything else.
Beatriz tells a story that she heard from a friend, but she cannot remember who told her the story.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following kinds of learning is indicated by the ability to recall a memorized list of unrelated words in reverse order?
State-dependent
Latent
Serial
Procedural
Paired-associate
- 13. Multiple Choice
Dr. Rudolph’s class has a big test coming up next week. Which of the following students is using a studying strategy that is most likely to lead to memory consolidation?
Gabriel is anxious about the test, so he distracts himself by playing video games.
Marcus does not study until the night before the test when he studies for eight hours straight.
Elizabeth studies for a half hour before she goes to bed each night the week before the exam.
Sharon does not study for the test, but she pays close attention, asks lots of questions, and takes good notes during class.
Mario studies by repeating his class notes to himself multiple times.
- 14. Multiple Choice
A group of friends watched a recent episode of a crime investigation show and concluded that they would have been able to figure out who was responsible for a crime more proficiently than did the television investigators. The friends’ overestimation of their ability to determine who committed the crime is most likely due to a reasoning error known as
the availability heuristic
hindsight bias
confirmation bias
cognitive dissonance
actor-observer bias
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which process transfers information from sensory memory to short-term memory?
Attention
Cognition
Differentiation
Perception
Sensation
- 16. Multiple Choice
After having a stroke resulting from a blockage of blood to the medial temporal lobe, Gerald could not remember new information, such as the books he had just read, new songs he had just heard, or the faces of new people he had just met. Gerald was experiencing
dissociative fugue
dissociative amnesia
retrograde amnesia
anterograde amnesia
conversion disorder
- 17. Multiple Choice
An individual’s recall tends to be better for information that is personally relevant primarily due to which of the following phenomena?
Bottom-up processing
Visual imagery
Dual encoding
Self-reference effect
Phonemic encoding
- 18. Multiple Choice
A prototype is best defined as
an example of habituation
an example of bottom-up processing
the equivalent of feature abstraction
the hypothetical "most typical" instance of a category
an essential element of category membership
- 19. Multiple Choice
In elementary school, Lisa learned to speak some Japanese in addition to English. As a sophomore in high school, Lisa took a class in Chinese. She found that some of the new vocabularies were difficult to learn because her earlier Japanese vocabulary was competing with the new Chinese words. This situation best illustrates
positive transfer
repression
proactive interference
retroactive interference
misattribution
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